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OPINION - SAIT campus, I knew you when…
Rebekah jarvis, A&E editor
With dramatic transformations happening on campus, SAIT’s teenage years are upon us and current students are forced to watch it awkwardly struggle to come into its own.
A sensitive student will see past the mess of construction to SAIT’s finer features. Heritage Hall is like an elegant nose or strong jaw line that will someday be the cornerstone of a good-looking face.
But right now, SAIT is down-right ugly.
Campus is pocked with massive holes that will someday be filled with state-of-the-art classrooms. Tarps and temporary walls can’t quite conceal the commotion behind the poorly applied facades.
Over and over again, like a ripe pimple caked with badly-matched cover up, unsightly dirt erupts from its containment and spills out into plain view.
Raging hormones cause more than just acne. Teenagers are moody and selfishly take their confusion and growing pains out on the people around them.
Back in first semester, the teenaged SAIT campus spent months in the throes of a noisy, destructive temper tantrum. The old, unstylish parkade was demolished in a cacophonous fit.
Those living on campus must surely have lost sleep to the unpredictable outbursts that ushered out a part of SAIT’s less-than-chic childhood.
SAIT has been wearing ill-fitting clothes for a while now. With a steadily growing population, it has struggled just to keep its student body covered.
By 2012, SAIT will have a wardrobe that is all the rage. No longer will it hide its budding breasts under baggy T-shirts.
When the bold architecture is erected and the vast hills of dirt are covered in grass, SAIT will step out as an adult and make a fashion statement that says, “I’m still here Calgary. And by the way, I’m hot now.”
Unfortunately, by the time SAIT emerges as a beautiful swan, students attending the school now will have graduated.
It seems unfair that future students will learn in the lap of luxury without knowing the hardships of the ugly duckling years.
Today SAIT is fumbling to unclasp its first bra, but tomorrow it will be tall, suave and debonair. Students leaving before the big reveal will just have to look forward to one day saying, “Oh, him/her? We used to date.”